James O’Keefe and Nicole Sandler squabble over ACORN tapes

Progressive radio host Nicole Sandler is at the Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis, where she ran into a decidedly conservative attendee: James O’Keefe.

As Sandler describes on her blog, she spotted O’Keefe in the lobby, and he invited her over to chat. Naturally, she pulled out her Flip Cam and recorded the whole thing. Eventually, O’Keefe tires of her and tries to get Sandler to go away.

“I didn’t ask for an interview, I just wanted to have a discussion. You’re interviewing me on tape,” he says, when she reminds him that he gestured her over.

“Yeah, you tape people all the time. You tape people and you edit the tapes to make it look like things that didn’t, happened.”

Watch Sandler and O’Keefe argue about their differing definitions of “the truth,” and the ACORN tape scandal in the clip below, embedded via YouTube.

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